Having sprites render infront of floor

[noob_killer012345678]

Im making a mod, nothing special, just adding a boss. The problem im facing is that during the death animation, i require the boss to be sitting down. The easiest way to do this (i thought) is to make a sitting graphic, and offset it so the legs are into the floor yet render infront of it. The issue here is that it isnt rendering infront of the floor.

Ive read through the actor flags and other areas in the zdoom wiki many times, yet cant figure it out. Does anyone know a solution for this?

[Player701]

I think this only works with the original software renderer; it's currently not possible to do that with any of the hardware renderers. For reference: see past discussions here and here.

[Dan_The_Noob]

couldn't you just spawn in an actor of the legs on death?

[noob_killer012345678]

couldn't you just spawn in an actor of the legs on death?

No because then i would constantly have to move that actor to be on the line between the player and the dying boss

[noob_killer012345678]

I think this only works with the original software renderer; it's currently not possible to do that with any of the hardware renderers. For reference: see past discussions here and here.

Okay thanks for telling me. I guess i gotta switch over to software then

[Dan_The_Noob]

I guess i'm misunderstanding the effect you are going for, hopefully the software idea works i guess.

[Phredreeke]

Lucius is actually implementing something like this for The Force Engine

You can use z-biasing, "smooth particle" style blending, etc. - but the various solutions change the look and have corner cases that are problematic (i.e. there is no perfect solution). This is why I decided to completely side-step the problem by emulating the software flood-filling idea on the GPU using shader based quad extrusion.

Of course, I have no idea if such an implementation would break other features GZDoom has

[Graf Zahl]

The main problem with this is that it can only be done with hacks. But hacks have the unpleasant side effect of breaking other things. For example, 3D floors would no longer work - as would depth-dependent postprocessing.

In general, if sprites need such setup, it may actually be preferable to use a model if possible. The larger a sprite gets, the worse it looks. Doom's SpiderMastermind is already too much, it just looks ridiculous in its dead form.